Definition of "flung" []

• Past tense and past participle of fling. (verb)

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• "Wives he should have by fifties and hundreds if he wanted them, she thought in her great-heartedness, reflecting on the one whose threatened pretensions to be his mate were slain by the title flung at her, and merited."
• "Wives he should have by fifties and hundreds if he wanted them, she thought in her great - heartedness, reflecting on the one whose threatened pretensions to be his mate were slain by the title flung at her, and merited."
• "Unable to remain flung up on the beach, pounded ever back toward the beach by the perpetual shoreward rush of the kanaka surf, the up-piled water escaped to the sea by way of the channel and in the form of under-tow along the bottom under the breakers."